Frederik Meijer Lecture Series

The Frederik Meijer Lecture series has been established to provide local and national presentations that focus on issues of leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship from the perspective of students, faculty members, and participants in business throughout the region.

Winter 2012

Monday, February 27, 2012 — Barbara Pierce Bush
Topic: "One Person Can Make a Difference Confronting Today's Global Health Challenges"
Lecture 7 p.m. Reception to follow.
Russel H. Kirkhof Center, Grand River Room, Allendale Campus
Free and open to the public

Co-Founder and President Global Health Corps, Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, Echoing Green Foundation Fellow

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Fall 2011

Monday, November 7, 2011 — Bonnie Wesorick, RN, MSN, FAAN
Topic: "Leading Healthcare Transformation for Those Who Give and Receive Care"
Lecture 7 p.m. Reception to follow.
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd floor, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Free and open to the public

Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), a business unit of Elsevier, and the Founder of the CPMRC International Consortium

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Winter 2011

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 — Tom Seidman, Owner, Honey Creek Pictures
Topic: “What’s So Good About Being a Liberal Arts Major?”
Reception 5:30 p.m. Lecture 6:30 p.m.
Second Floor, Eberhard Center, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Free and open to the public

Please follow link to listen to his lecture (Lecture is in 2 parts):

Part 1: http://youtu.be/1f6tb5gUgf4

Part 2: http://youtu.be/ZJSLy_seeD4

B. Thomas Seidman, Producer/Director, has been working professionally in the entertainment industry for over twenty years, most prominently as a DGA assistant director for such filmmakers as Robert Redford (Ordinary People), Clint Eastwood (Honkytonk Man), and Peter Weir (The Dead Poets Society). Mr. Seidman will share his thoughts on the benefits of a liberal arts education for success in business and creative work.

Mr. Seidman graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College (a four-year liberal arts college), and subsequently attended the American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. His documentary Los Angeles was selected for inclusion in the PBS series P.O.V.: The American Documentary and received an Emmy nomination. He has produced and/or directed a number of independent television projects, as well as several Los Angeles theater productions, including Desperate Characters, winner of the ADA award for best comedy direction, and the world premiere of The Last Pitch, an LA Weekly "Pick Of The Week." His most recent film, Horizontal Accidents, is a dark comedy produced by the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University as the 2010 Summer Film Project.

Fall 2010

Conway Thursday, September 30, 2010 — Distinguished Academic Lecturer Dr. Jill Ker Conway
Topic: “The Next 50 Years in the United States”
7 p.m.
Second Floor, Eberhard Center, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Free and open to the public

A successful author and academician, as well as the first woman president of Smith College, Dr. Conway serves on the boards of Colgate-Palmolive and Nike, and is the former chairwoman of the Lend Lease Corporation. Jill Ker Conway is equally successful in the business world. Dr. Conway shares her rich experience, insight, and wisdom.
Sponsored also by the GVSU 50th Anniversary.

Glenn A. Niemeyer Learning and Living Center • Allendale MI 49401
Phone 616-331-3219 • honors@gvsu.edu